Beeswax is a unique and extremely valuable gift to mankind. In the people it is sometimes called bee bread or bread, as it is distinguished by a special taste, which is very similar to the taste of traditional rye bread.
What is Perga?
Perga is a balanced and easily assimilated beekeeping product that has a sufficiently long shelf life. It can be of different colors, because how the bee looks like a bee depends on the type of plant, the pollen of which was used to make it. Therefore, with equal probability, you can meet bee bread of yellow, amber or even dark brown color. In addition, it can be presented in the form of pastes, granules, a mixture with honey or be in the most natural form - in honeycombs.
In hives, peroxide is formed in small quantities, but, despite all the technical progress, no one has succeeded in synthesizing it artificially. And this is not surprising, because the components of the bee's bee are as follows:
- 16 amino acids, including the irreplaceable ones( leucine, threonine, valine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine, methionine), as well as arginine and histidine, which are indispensable forchildren;
- 12 fatty acids: lauric, palmitic, myristic, stearic, palmitoleic, oleic, linolenic, lipolic, arachidonic, gadoleinic, klopanodonic, erucic;
- carbohydrates;
- lactic acid;
- proteins;
- all vitamins known to man in different quantities;
- macro and microelements;
- hormone-like substances, including growth stimulant;
- enzymes, etc.
Thanks to this unique composition of Perga, it is a highly nutritional compound for bees, in which lipids, vitamins and proteins uniquely combine, therefore it is used for their brood. But since the biochemical processes taking place in the human body and bees are similar, the bread is extremely useful for people. At the same time, the calorie content of Perga is quite low, it is only 196 kcal per 100 g of product.
Important: amazing, but pergia can never act as a cause of allergic reaction.
Useful properties
Bee products, including perga, are widely used for healing and rejuvenation. Its small doses serve as a full-fledged source of vitamins, so using it as a daily food supplement can satisfy all the body's needs for vitamins, even with poor and monotonous nutrition.
As the main useful properties of this product can be called:
- Increased muscle mass and recovery after surgery, as peroxide has anabolic properties. Therefore, it is not necessary to talk about whether it is useful for athletes, many trainers perceive this bee product as an over-the-counter anabolic.
- Improve gastrointestinal function and increase metabolism due to high content of enzymes in it. In addition, pergia helps restore the gastric mucosa in gastritis or peptic ulcer, and it has a beneficial effect on the pancreas and liver.
- Helps increase hemoglobin levels, which is indispensable in the treatment of anemia of different origin.
- Strengthening of the heart muscle and normalization of the heart rhythm.
- Diuretic properties that come to the rescue in hypertension, inflammatory diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, as well as in the presence of not passing edema in any pathology.
- Lowers cholesterol, which is extremely important in the prevention of strokes and heart attacks.
- Substantially stimulates the body's natural defenses.
- shows the properties of an antidepressant, so it is effective for diseases of the nervous system, etc.
Tip: The most effective and natural way of eating bee bread is munching peppers in honeycombs.
In addition, bee perg is widely used in cosmetology. On its basis, prepare all kinds of masks, which make the skin surprisingly velvety and supple. Therefore, this product has long been used by women to rejuvenate and preserve beauty.
Getting perg
Perga or bee bread, in fact, is a flower pollen, which caring toilers laid and densely packed into honeycombs, poured honey and sealed with wax. Due to this, cells do not receive air, which serves as a favorable background for the action of enzymes, activation of specific bacteria and yeast fungi. The result of these processes is the lactic acid fermentation of pollen, and its individual grains germinate and, thus, the perga is formed. The presence of lactic acid and honey in a tightly closed cell serves as a guarantee for containing excessive activity of microorganisms, since these substances are strong preservatives.
Most often, the perg is presented on the shelves as a mixture with honey. In this form it is more convenient for consumption and is an ideal variant of the biological additive to food. Prepare beekeepers such a mixture by simply passing the honeycomb cut from the honeycombs and mixing it with honey in different proportions. After its settling for several days, the wax that it contains floats to the surface, where it is removed by the caring hand of the beekeeper. The composition of such a finished product includes:
- honey;
- Perga;
- propolis;
- a small amount of wax.
Warning! The shelf life of a mixture of Perga and honey in the refrigerator is 2.5 years.
More details about the storage rules for this valuable bee product can be found in the article -
The main features of storing perga: temperature, humidity, tightness.
Perga or pollen: which is better?
Considering the difference between pollen and pollen, we can say that perg is a pollen that has been specially processed, as a result of which it changes its qualitative and quantitative composition somewhat, and also acquires new properties. Usually in perg contains less fat and protein than in pollen, and carbohydrates and lactic acid are more.
Important: since the pollen of different plants differs in composition, the composition of the bee bread is not constant. Therefore, the products obtained from different beekeepers always differ from each other.
You can talk for a long time about the fact that it is better to have a bird or pollen. Each product of beekeeping has its own fans, so disputes can be fought endlessly. Unequivocally, it can only be asserted that honey perga is more rich than pollen and even honey for microelements and vitamins, especially for group B and K. In addition, it surpasses in activity and ease of assimilation any pollen by several times, therefore, for medicinal purposesit is more preferable to use pergu, not pollen.
The most valuable is the pergola, obtained from the pollen of several plants, ideally from forest or meadow motley grass. This is due to the fact that it is the wild honey-plants that most often show powerful medicinal properties.
Warning! The use of pollen or bread obtained from crops, for example, clover, sunflower, buckwheat, rapeseed and others, is undesirable. The reason for rejecting such products is that very often the fields are treated with chemicals that inevitably penetrate pollen, and, consequently, into pergus.